Jolyne got it for him

Under the big bold DILF it reads “Damn I Love Fishing”

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ough I ADORE when people are Just A Little Bit Off because of some kind of magic or another. Like. It's subtle things. Little things that you only really notice subconsciously

their breathing isn't quite right, the rhythm isn't the same as most people and yet they never seem to be out of breath no matter what

their eyes are almost unnaturally bright, they don't glow nor does the color change but it's just brighter. Almost like the reflection on the water at noon, like the colors around them are suddenly much duller, like the light is coming from them

Their skulls are shaped subtly differently. It's not obvious on first glance, but the shape of the forehead is subtly different, more musculature to the jaw with added structure for those muscles to attach to.

Their teeth aren't human. They look it, save for the elongated canines, at first glance, but even the incisors are sharp, multiple sets of canine teeth, fewer molars and the ones they do have are shaped differently, better for cracking open bone than grinding plants.

They walk slightly differently. Their footsteps quieter than anything that size should be capable of, they tend to walk on the balls of their feet, balanced as well like that as any human would be with feet fully planted.

Their voices always have a subtle accent to them speaking human languages, languages not built for their subtly different mouths and vocal chords.

These differences feel all the starker comparing them to standard vampires- something that once was human besides something that was inhuman from the very start.

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Jotaro stews in the isolation and isolates himself further, sits with the feelings of alienation until they turn to anger, that Something Is Wrong With Him-

Jonathan shoves all the feelings in a dark corner and tries to ignore them. He's the Perfect Gentleman after all. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Anything else is masked, to himself as much so as externally.

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Imagine hamon fighter defeats foe, but is left with a lot of badly bleeding wounds and is covered in slime/mud/zombie guts with no easy way to clean off or be helped without going a decent distance to get someone else- leaving them with the choice of trying to clean it out without supplies in the middle of nowhere, or use hamon to seal it shut for the time being still covered in stuff and risk serious infection, or try and make it back to somewhere it can be cleaned out properly while still bleeding.

Or trying to rescue people/do things in a large-scale fire, having to balance healing up their lungs from smoke inhalation before they go back in to try and save more people with actually going in there and saving them, constantly risking enough smoke damage that they wouldn't be able to heal themselves on their own. (I actually have an outline for Jonathan whump on this concept that I probably won't get to writing up anytime soon.)

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I can't remember if Hamon healing every got an in canon explanation for how exactly it worked, but I've always been very attached to the idea that it doesn't technically fix anything, it just stimulates the body's natural healing to be much quicker and more effective

So. The pillarmen.

A lot of stuff about them is vague and idk exactly what I'm remembering wrong or whatever, but!

From what I recall Kars and Esidisi used the masks to elevate themselves above other pillarmen, created masks for other creatures like humans and horses along the way, and the long term project was the perfect mask to make them the ultimate lifeform.

I wonder how much control they had over those manipulations of their biology, when they mutated themselves thus.

The form Esidisi takes after Joseph initially beats him- nothing but a nervous system with maybe a few blood vessels - he must have known he could do that, by how seamlessly he was able to hide, to possess Suzie.

Was that knowledge because he and Kars had planned it, had gone through the cold calculations of survival, deciding what parts of him to reinforce the best against hamon, even knowing it might be excruciatingly painful, not quite sure how well he could recover if he was reduced to such a state -

Was that knowledge from experience, from Kars thinking he'd died before, cornered by hamon users, all his flesh burning away bit by bit- perhaps a battle of attrition, cutting off hamon-tainted flesh again and again even as his energy to replenish it runs dry, before a final desperate attempt to peel away every inch of himself save the bare essentials so he could escape - and even then they found him - but he wove his veins and neurons into their own in an act of desperation, puppeteering them from the inside, taking advantage of the ensuing chaos to flee back to Kars before the hamon user wrests back enough control to burn him out of their body, they manage it, just shy of fast enough to kill him, he stumbles into the cave in a body ablaze and Kars rips apart the flesh to reveal his lover and Esidisi cannot move or speak for weeks, months, as he recovers, and all he can say is that he saw the sun through the hamon user's eyes and it was beautiful -

And in the end it happens (again) it comes to this, Esidisi stripped down to only the most essential parts of himself, knowing this time there's no way out, this time he'll burn, but he can at least give Kars, Kars who lacks this gift, this curse, to survive after your flesh burns away, the chance to see the sun -

(and Kars gets a gift/curse of his own, to achieve everything he'd ever wanted but incapable of appreciating it and utterly alone, unable to ever die-)

I wonder how vampires/pillarmen might respond to ionizing radiation besides UV, since it never comes up in cannon. I mean, most likely it'd burn the same as UV if not worse, but -

Would even touches of it poison them? What if it didn't kill outright? What if it disabled or weakened their healing factor? What if it only seemed that way because the healing factor was entirely absorbed healing the radiation damage, until suddenly, perhaps even well after the exposure, it gives out entirely, and they rot from the inside out. Radiation can cause cancer too- and with a healing factor like that, so many rapidly dividing cells... Perhaps with other parts of them giving in, the careful guiding hand of that healing factor falls apart and that turbocharged flesh bubbles with tumors like a pot of water at boil.

(I do have an oc with a radiation based stand but uhhh they're not super fleshed out and explaining enough about their world to explain even the basics of who they are and the symbolism in their stand would be. So much.)

... I'm in a very Horror mood today.

HEHEHEHEHEHEHHE YESYESYESYESYEYS

I tend to switch it up between fics as works for that specific fic's purpose, but it can fall into categories like

-an act of violence from an officer/nobleman in response to stealing for survival that hardened him at a young age

-taken protecting a gang member in a fight, cementing people's loyalty to him and his courage

-Unspecified incident at very young age, possibly same event that killed parents, an eternal reminder of how brutal the circumstances he lives in are and how it spares nobody, not even the youngest

-Stupid Shenanigans, perhaps tie it into being a hard-won lesson regarding such shenanigans he can pass onto Joseph later

-Hell, maybe it WAS a parent, drawing further parallels between his situation and Dio's, allowing their different responses to make more interesting foils.

to be honest? I admittedly haven't actually put too much thought into the how

as much as I'm a sucker for Super Gnarly Scar Has A Stupid/Silly Backstory To It, I'd probably go with some combination of the first and second option. Definitely in his younger years, but enough to cement has as a known member of the "community" so to speak. The scar is incredibly obvious and recognisable, and no matter how much Speedwagon could ever change his appearance that's always going to be a noticeable feature